Lessons Learned

This project was the greatest film school anyone could have ever attended.

If it rains, and the sandwiches for the crew are left outside, the sandwiches will get soggy.

No one likes soggy sandwiches.

Never, ever lie about whether or not you liked a performance. You are not as good of an actor as your actors.

Anything that brings you closer to your friends is never a mistake.

Always add at least an hour to any estimation of how long something is going to take. If it’s in reference to shooting a scene, add three hours.

“An unlikely group gathered to complete an objective” is both the story of the movie and the story of the making of the movie.

Plan on feeding your people more than you had planned on feeding them, and make it hot food when possible. You will not believe how essential this is.

That said, do not combine pizza and ice cream.

If you have a great line in your movie that is used by your major villian at the turning point of your key cinematic battle, and then five years later you see Harry Potter V: Order of the Phoenix and that exact line is used by their major villian at the turning point of their key cinematic battle, you will be furious.